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Hawkeye wrote: ↑

Tue Jun 02, 2020 3:15 pm

Do you not feed them any sugar based foods? And why butter?

They don't really enjoy sugar based food and thief ants typically enjoy to eat grease

I've had a small solenopsis molesta colony for about a year now. I caught them last year in June and have been raising them until now. However, they never had a colony boom. The queen constantly has about 18 workers or less this entire time. I never had a decrease in workers or increase in workers. ...

During this time of the year some temperature drops and ants go into hibernation. its best to leave them alone for a while but regularly check for updates. As the temperature increases your ants will be more active.

I have a terrarium currently holding a small pheidole pilifera colony. The tank is pretty big about 14 inches by 8 inches. I added some succulents and cacti among other things, I also added in some pill bugs and spring tails. Theres also some millipedes and centipedes in the tank with a other small ...

Can I feed my pheidole piliferia ants dried store bought meal worms.

I have some ants hanging outside their testtube setup in a box, does that mean there's not enough space in the tube and should i move them.

About 1 cm

https://lasiusnigerants.blogspot.com/2019/06/blog-post.html

does it look like this?

You should provide some photos of the mold and queen to better understand your situation.

So i have a Solenopsis Molesta queen with some eggs and her test tube already has some mold growing. Should I try transferring her to another test tube that holds a queen with some eggs, because im currently out of test tubes OR should i add some soil to the test tube and maybe springtails to deal w...